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- Comment on 'Borderlands 4 is a premium game made for premium gamers' is Randy Pitchford's tone deaf retort to the performance backlash: 'If you're trying to drive a monster truck with a leaf blower's motor, you're going to be disappointed' 1 day ago:
Ran dis Pitchfork into your mom last night
- Comment on Hollow Knight: Silksong Sparks Debate About Difficulty and Boss Runbacks 1 week ago:
I personally think Outer Wilds should give you the whole lore as an audiobook, not everyone wants to go hunting for clues and reading a bunch of old conversations between dead people in order to figure out what’s going on…
- Comment on What if this is a coma dream. 1 week ago:
Good ending
- Comment on There are algorithms deciding if we're human or not 1 week ago:
Epic Games be damned…
- Comment on There are algorithms deciding if we're human or not 1 week ago:
Reverse Turing test
- Comment on Should I feel bad that my abuser is suffering? 1 week ago:
Never be coerced into caring about someone who doesn’t care about you.
- Comment on 4th dimension doesn't exist because even 1D or 2D themselves are not real. 1 week ago:
We have no evidence of a 1 or 2 dimensional universe existing, just like we have no evidence of a 4 dimensional universe existing. That might be because they don’t exist, or it might be because we can’t look into other universes.
If time is a dimension or not, that depends more on what you think the word “dimension” means than on what time itself is.
- Comment on Who are the "middle class" supposed to support in the class stuggle? 2 weeks ago:
The 1% richest hold 50% of all the wealth. If we’re being reasonable, everyone vs them is probably more than enough.
- Comment on How to Build a Powerful Reverse Proxy Firewall for Blocking the Evil Web-Scraping Robot Hordes from Hell 2 weeks ago:
Wait till you hear about betanet
- Comment on (Rant) Don't buy Rockstar games. 2 weeks ago:
Everyone on the comments making such a huge deal of account security when literally all Rockstar had to do was allow people to unlink their Steam accounts from Social Club. It could even be done in their own launcher, with the credentials of the Steam account that actually owns the game. Then people could just make a new Social Club account, it’s not worth shit anyways.
They’re locking people out of playing a local, offline game, over some decade year old account that I used my spam email for, and now I’m supposed to remember it? Get a fucking grip bro.
- Comment on (Rant) Don't buy Rockstar games. 2 weeks ago:
Social Club is the kind of account you use a throwaway email for, and just use whatever random nickname isn’t taken yet. I, personally, have no idea what the email or nickname to my Social Club account are. I also have bought GTA V through Steam back in 2015 and haven’t lived into Social Club since. I think it’s perfectly fair to expect that your Steam account shouldn’t be hijacked by Rockstar upon linking it to one Social Club account once.
At the very least, if they’re gonna have a Rockstar launcher, it should allow you to unlink your Steam account through it, using your Steam credentials, and free it up to link to a new Social Club account.
- Comment on Would you ever give up your right to leave a bad review about a company? 2 weeks ago:
That’s just the company expecting to deliver you bad services/products before they even know who you are. Absolute clown behavior.
- Comment on [deleted] 2 weeks ago:
I can’t say that I know of a single adult who isn’t against children being able to access porn. The question is: how exactly do you expect to achieve that without nuking porn as a whole?
First, if we decide that porn is just unacceptable to be available for anyone to see because children might access it, then who decides where to draw the line? Does hentai count? Or should it be banned as well? How about artistic nudity? Do painters get a pass? Does Hollywood get a pass? What about educational material? How realistic can a diagram of the reproductive system be before it’s bannable?
If we’re actually trying to restrict access to porn just from underage people, specifically, then how? I’m sure you’re aware of UK’s recent attempt to enforce online ID requirement under the premise of protecting children from harmful content. If that’s how, then why exactly does Spotify require an ID now? I’ve, personally, never gone there looking for porn. Same with YouTube, tbh. And also, why have people opposing such measures been visited, and questioned, by the British police?
Truth is: online ID is not about protecting children, it’s about governmental control, especially powerful for minority profiling. Anyone saying otherwise is either uninformed, lying, or just delusional. No one is opposing that children should get their access restricted, I’d say that’s not even just about porn, I don’t want to see children on Twitter, Reddit or TikTok either. The problem is doing that reliably, while respecting people’s right to privacy. Once there’s a real solution for that, I’ll support it. For now, the best solution we have is parental control, which was available for as long as internet has been a product. “Protect YOUR children” is no revolutionary take.
- Comment on In shower today: "I bet my YouTube account is older than most of the people on YouTube." ...Yes, yes it is. 2 weeks ago:
A coworker of mine was born in 2006. I never knew hiring toddlers was legal…
- Comment on If conditions on earth are perfect for life to form shouldn't have happened more than once? 2 weeks ago:
The conditions are perfect life to thrive, and especially to evolve, we’re not so sure about forming.
Actually, I’m pretty compelled by the theory that Mars actually had the perfect conditions for life to form. With less of an ocean covered surface, regular rain, and constant meteor showers. Such meteors would form holes lined with random chemicals, which then get filled with water, forming a puddle. If one puddle doesn’t have all the necessary components to form life, another likely will. That seems to me like a much better scenario than a sparsely diluted ocean on Earth.
Then whatever life originated on Mars might have been thrown into space by on e of those meteors, and by chance, fell on Earth. There’s actually evidence that such interplanetary matter transfer is possible, and has happened. That would explain why we only know of a single common ancestor, the only one that arrived here.
- Comment on How do I "sabotage" my own online content to throw a wrench in AI training machines? 3 weeks ago:
The problem with AI is not even their developers fully understand how they work, and they’re not standardized, so there isn’t a one size fits all solution for dealing with them. The amount of different ways a model may or may not fail in is so large, that any particular fail mode might as well be random.
Even if you do manage to find something like a captcha that can filter out most AI models, it’s as much a matter of time, as it is a matter of randomness for some developer to find a way to bypass it, even if accidentally. Case and point: m.youtube.com/watch?v=iuR9EJbXHKg
- Comment on If AI “hallucinates,” doesn’t that make it more human than we admit? 3 weeks ago:
You can think like that, until you see what AI hallucination actually like like.
“Pilates|Pilates|Pilates|Pilates|Pilates|Pilates|Pilates|Pilates|Pilates|Pilates|Pilates|Pilates…”
- Comment on [deleted] 3 weeks ago:
Time for c/stupidquestions
- Comment on If I stood on a precision scale and farted, would I get lighter or heavier? 4 weeks ago:
Not really, the balloon gains volume at the same rate as it gains mass, so its buoyancy doesn’t change. Or at least it wouldn’t, if it weren’t for a a small detail: the air inside the balloon gets compressed, which makes it heavier for its size, making it gain more mass than it gains buoyant force. That means the scale would read an increase in mass, representing the extra amount of air that shouldn’t be occupying that space, were it not compressed.
- Comment on Is it everywhere? 5 weeks ago:
Wait till you learn about the Wilhelm scream…
- Comment on The triumph of AI marks the end of the information age. 5 weeks ago:
AI is more susceptible to misinformation than the average AI user would be without AI.
- Comment on Should I unplug my smart tv from the internet? 5 weeks ago:
No one eos obligated to have internet, and there are actually people who don’t have it. The TV isn’t sold as an “online only” product, they cannot block you from using something that works offline because you’re offline.
- Comment on Should I unplug my smart tv from the internet? 5 weeks ago:
You should’ve never connected it in the first place. Never even set up any functions that a piece of hardware prompts you to. Most of those are enforced only because the company behind them gains something from you having them set up. Unless you actually need something that depends on that function, disable the function.
- Comment on The worst thing about Linux is its users 1 month ago:
“Complaint”
“Solution”
“No, only complaint 😡”
- Comment on Some people think that proprietary software for a 3d printer is a plus? 1 month ago:
Proprietary often means “support, as long as we have to, then fuck you”.
I learned the hard way, by selling proprietary products from a corpo that promised support. Would unironically be better off manufacturing them myself.
- Comment on Elevators might just be Teleporters in disguise 1 month ago:
I always think of what my dog thinks of elevators. She knows you get in it, get out, and you’re somewhere else, but does she understand it in the same way as a car? Or more like pure magic? Because in a car, she can see it moving, and going somewhere else, she doesn’t just teleport there… Idk, shower thoughts, I guess.
- Comment on 3D Printing Patterns Might Make Ghost Guns More Traceable Than We Thought 1 month ago:
Re-slice in different positions, use a few different slicers and printers, got it. Thanks for the pro tip 👍🏻
- Comment on [deleted] 1 month ago:
Average corporate behavior
- Comment on Cyberpunk 2077: Ultimate Edition is coming to Mac this thursday 2 months ago:
Hot.
- Comment on Germans must be pretty happy. 2 months ago:
Because everything everyone thinks everywhere is always about america…